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Following on my previous post, today I focus on automated meter infrastructure (AMI) and field area network (FAN). Local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN) are well-known terms and do not need explanation. There are a few XANs to indicate the scope of the area covered. For example, a met...
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Although I have not abandoned the green IT/data center field, I have also started following smart grid. Smart grid includes the three areas of power, IT, and communications. In this post, I’ll briefly touch on how ICT is used in smart grid.
The power system consists of generation, transmiss...
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It is often said that smart grid is the power grid superimposed on information and communications technology (ICT). To support smart grid, it is imperative that communications be improved and used for smart grid.
At ConnectivityWeek several weeks ago, a representative from the Federal Communications...
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I remember when ZigBee was first officially announced in San Francisco. I was researching wireless mesh networking and attended the TinyOS workshop, which was hosted by Professor David Culler at UC Berkeley. The workshop was in 2005, and the ZigBee meeting was right after that, so it must have been ...
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Cloud services via MPLS networks provide high security at low cost. Learn how today’s distributed organizations are struggling with the increasing sophistication, proliferation and severity of network security threats. With security protection from MPLS-based Managed Security Services, compani...
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Addressing network traffic trends with new opportunities for business communications. The convergence of voice and data on a single wire is perhaps the most exciting network development since the invention of the private branch exchange (PBX). Over the past decade, Multi Protocol Label Switching (MP...
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A practical approach to assessing WAN technologies that support your distributed organization’s diverse needs. Distributed organizations are facing the challenge of finding VPN WAN solutions that support the proliferation of branch offices and mobile workers along with the successful deploymen...
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6 Best Practices to Ensure a Thorough Evaluation. There comes a point when every organization must make a decision. For small and midsize businesses: should we really be managing our network ourselves? For larger enterprises: what aspects of managing the network should be outsourced? Read this white...
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Smart phones for the enterprise are multiplying faster than even the Wall Street pundits can come up with reasons to proclaim a winner. Though the consumer markets around the world provide the stimulus for wide-ranging offers from the different players, piercing the corporate enterprise is a diffe...
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